The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-07-20


milk.
The market grower is liable to make
great mistake who overlooks the neigabor-
ing home market, trusting to the large
towns only.
Sulphur and tobacco leaves burned in
the poultry house, the house being closed
perfectly tight, will clean out the red lice,
says contemporary.
Plants may be grown in comparatively
small pots if watered occasionally with g
weak solution of guano, hens droppings,
or Sulphate of ammonia.
Fruit to bring good prices nowadays
must be fair and large, while small, in
ferior fruit of any kind is not worth the
trouble Of sending to market.
Grass should be cut, if possible, when it
is dry. When help is plenty it is better to
do this work in the afternoon, after the
heat of the day has partially subsidized.
There are over fifty poultry associations
in the United States that annually give ex-
hibitions. They have been instrumental
in greatly advancing the poultry interests.
Coal ashes sre not fit for the dust-box un-
til the cinders have been sifted ont. A
hen cannot throw coal cinder on her back.
They are too heavy beside, they hurt her
feet.
Farm horses protected by thin blank cts
from dies IN hot weathersswiu keep in good
condition much more easily than ii ex-
posed to the torment OF innumerable bites
during all the hours of the long, hot day s,
There is considerable ground in the gar
den that for several months OF good corn
weather produces nothing but weads, where
as it could be made 20 afford feed for many
pound Of 50 cent butter in supplement-
ing the pastures.
Young lawns after the first winter, have
more or less low places, where unequal set
Element has occurred, and these want to be
filed up until good, even surfaces are pro-
duced, then re- seed all gaps with fresh seed,
and roll with an 1880 pound sectional
roller.
The object of blowing corn in a dry sea.
son is not so much to kill the weeds as to
form q mulch OF dry dirt that will COZ.
dense the moisture in the shape of dew,
and that viii conserve or save the moisture
that comes up from the hidden reservoirs
below.
The grand hall staircase in the new Equi-
table Building in New York City includes
specimens Of the finest and rarest marbles
of the entire world. Drafts have been
made upon the historic Roman quarries
and TIE marble mines of India aud other
countries where rare qualities OF stone have
been discovered. The grouping OF these
specimens has been no small labor.
Danbury is rather fond of its ten-year-
old girl ball player; but her parents are
not. She is said to catch with perfect ease,
grace and accuracy, even the highest fg
being captured with rare Judgment. Sac
does u OF throw overhanded like girls in
general. but puts it in from the shoulder
in the true style. Her parents have pun
nisbed her in various ways for playing
hall ont ho ctr ii he
passion for it amounts 10 mania.
A night or two since, while Mrs Emma
Gephart. CT TUscola, Ill, was preparing to
retire she CHANGED TO lift up one of the
pillows Of the bed, in doing which she dis
turbed large blue racer that had coiled
itself underneath to snooza. Her screams
aroused the household, and the intruding
reptile was soon dispatched. AS a large
maple grew nesr the house the snake is
supposed to have climed up that aud out
on its branches 10 reach her room, which
was on the second floor.
Col. Bachelor, the official historian OF
| Gettysburg and an officer in the Gettys-
| burg Memorial Association. has received
aU order from the War Department for turn
| ing over TO hin 40 field pieces Omplete
| which, es fast as received, are to be placed
| in the positions where they were used IN
| the battle. This is the number of guns in
the batteries Of the regular army which
| took part in the fight. The guns now to
be furnished are not in all cases the identi-
/ cal ones which were used in the battle, bat
| they will be of the same patterns. The
order is under an act of Congress making
| q donation of these guns for the purpose
/ indicated.
Winter rye appears to be dec: easing
rather than increasing in popularity in
/ Ontario, a good many farmers who sowed
it in past years confessiDg that they find it
too improbable. The crop seems ID De
in pretty good CONDITION., the frnsts affect
| ipg but slightly the light sells on which it
is usually grown. Tie culIiyation Of this
| cereal, however can hardly be said to be
| general in any section of the province, but
| there ara patches Of it to be fOand in uost
| counties, ard occasionally even in the
| district of Muskoka. In Central and
Eastern Ontario it is found in greater
| abundance than in the West, but even
here the reports seem 10 show d falling of
in the acreage. In the western group of
| counties, Norfolk appears TO be the only
county in which any considerable ares is
grown, and this is also the only county in
which the acreage seems to have made
any increase.
The caDning'o of green peas. which is now
| a busy industry in Delaware is an interest
ing process. The peas are shelled by hand
and then fed into the hopper Of separa.
tor, which divides them into three grades
| Then they are put into copper Kettles,
where they are steamed just enough to
wrinkle the outer skin and and intensity il
| possible the vivid green of the pea. They
are then filed into cans, which are placed
in an iron tray and dipped into trough
or tray Of boiling water which runs into
the cans filling them to the brim. This
| water contains whatever of preventative
nature is put into the cans to preserve the
vegetable. The cans are then wiped, seal.
holding 25S cans. These cages are mt into
air-tight steam kettles, where the cans are
subjected to hot steam under intense pres.
sure for about fifteen or twenty minutes.
The peas ere then ready for market. ,..s-